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LearnMate 7

Teacher’s Quick Start

Guide

November 2015

Catalog # 200069 Rev C

Contents 1. ENTERING LEARNMATE ............................................................................................................1

2. ENTERING A COURSE ................................................................................................................3

3. THE LEARNMATE INTERFACE ....................................................................................................4

4. NAVIGATING IN LEARNMATE....................................................................................................6

5. LEARNMATE BLOCKS ................................................................................................................7

6. LEARNMATE TOOLS ................................................................................................................ 10

7. STUDENT ENROLMENT METHODS .......................................................................................... 13

8. WORKING WITH OUTCOMES .................................................................................................. 15

9. STANDARD REPORTS .............................................................................................................. 17

10. INTELITEK GRADE REPORTS .................................................................................................... 18

11. GRADING YOUR STUDENTS .................................................................................................... 21

12. CONTENT AUTHORING ........................................................................................................... 25

13. MANAGING COURSE SETTINGS AND CONTENT ....................................................................... 30

14. QUESTIONS AND QUIZZES ...................................................................................................... 34

Copyright © 2015 Intelitek Inc.

LearnMate 7 Teacher’s Quick Start Guide

November 2015

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email: [email protected]

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Every effort has been made to make this guide complete and as accurate as possible. However, no warranty of

suitability, purpose or fitness is made or implied. Intelitek Inc. is not liable or responsible to any person or entity for

loss or damage in connection with or stemming from the use of the software, equipment and/or the information

contained in this publication.

Intelitek Inc. bears no responsibility for errors which may appear in this publication and retains the right to make

changes to the software, equipment and manual without prior notice.

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Teacher’s Quick Start Guide

‎1. Entering LearnMate 1

1. Entering LearnMate

A. Browsing to the Site

In your web browser, enter the Internet address

you have been given.

B. Logging in

To log in, you require a username and password. Contact your administrator for a username and password if you

do not already have one.

1 At the top-right or bottom left corners of the

screen, click Log in.

2 In the Log in to the site page, enter your

username and password.

3 Click Login.

A list of available courses is displayed.

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‎1. Entering LearnMate 2

C. Installing Required Utilities

To prepare your computer for use with LearnMate, you must verify that your computer has the required utilities

installed.

1 In the Help Files block, click Utilities. The Utilities page is

displayed.

2 Follow the instructions on the Utilities page to check for,

and if necessary install, required utilities.

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‎2. Entering a Course 3

2. Entering a Course

Viewing and Entering Courses

After logging in, a list of available courses or course categories is displayed.

1 In the Navigation block, click Courses. A list of

courses that you teach is displayed.

2 Click the course that you want to enter.

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‎3. The LearnMate Interface 4

3. The LearnMate Interface

The LearnMate system consists of different types of pages with various clickable options on each page. Shown

below and on the next page, you can see two commonly encountered pages, the Home page and a course home

page:

The Home page lists all available courses.

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‎3. The LearnMate Interface 5

Course pages show the content and schedule of a course.

To learn how to navigate LearnMate, see section ‎‎4, Navigating in LearnMate. For more information about blocks, see

section ‎‎4, LearnMate Blocks. For more information about course activities and resources, see section ‎‎12, Content

Authoring. For more information about the other tools of LearnMate, see section ‎‎6, LearnMate Tools.

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‎4. Navigating in LearnMate 6

4. Navigating in LearnMate

Navigation between the various pages in LearnMate is designed to be efficient and clear.

Using Breadcrumbs

At the top of every LearnMate page you’ll find the

breadcrumbs. They show you the path between the Home

page and your current page. Click any of the pages listed in

the breadcrumbs to jump to them.

Clicking Hyperlinks

Throughout the system, all dark blue texts are clickable

hyperlinks that take you to another page.

Hyperlinks are found throughout the system, particularly in

the Blocks at the side and in the Course pages.

Using the Navigation Block

The Navigation block provides access to all your personal

system places, your profile, and your Course pages.

Click the icons to further expand the list.

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‎5. LearnMate Blocks 7

5. LearnMate Blocks

LearnMate 7 provides a wide range of blocks. You and your system administrator decide which blocks are visible on

each page.

A. Adding a Block

To add a block to the Home page or to a course page:

1 In the Administration block of the Home page or course

page, click Turn editing on.

2 Select a block from the Add a block dropdown menu at

the bottom of the page.

The block appears in one of the margins of the page. If desired,

move the block by dragging and dropping it with the icon.

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B. Removing a Block

There are three ways to remove, or at least partially remove, a block from view.

Dock the block to the outer margin of the page.

Hide the content of the block.

Delete the block altogether using the block actions menu.

This table lists the blocks available in LearnMate.

Block Name Description

Blog Menu Provides links to add a new blog entry.

Blog Tags Displays a list of blogs where font size visually indicates each blog's use. The more frequently

used blogs appear in a larger font size and least used in smaller fonts.

Calendar Displays a calendar with course events marked.

Comments Displays comments added by all users on the current page, and allows you to add your own

comments.

Community Finder Enables you and other users to access public community hubs, and search for courses to

download or enroll in.

Course Completion

Status Indicates whether a course has been completed or not.

Course/Site Summary Displays the course or site summary.

Courses Allows you to quickly navigate between all of your courses.

HTML Allows you to add text or images on a site or course page. The title bar can be left blank.

Intelitek Grade Reports Allows you to access the Intelitek Grade Reports, a set of four graphical and statistical reports

for your students’ assignments and quizzes.

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Latest News Lists the most recent news posted by your site administrators in the News Forum. It also has

a link to the archived news.

Logged in User Displays your information.

Mentees Provides mentors with quick access to their mentee(s) profile page(s).

Messages Lists all new messages received. Provides access to the Messages pages.

My Latest Badges Displays badges earned.

My Private Ffiles Enables access to a user's private files area.

Navigation Allows you to navigate throughout the course.

Online Users Lists all course participants who are currently using LearnMate.

People Contains a link to the list of participants associated with the course area in various roles.

Quiz Results Displays quiz results.

Random Glossary

Entry Displays random entries from a glossary.

Recent Activity Lists recent changes or additions made to the course.

Recent Blog Entries Displays recent blog entries.

Remote RSS Feeds Enables RSS feeds from external websites to be displayed.

Search Forums Allows you to search course forums for specified text.

Section Links Allows you and students to quickly navigate to a particular topic/week section of the course

Self Completion Provides a link for students to declare that they have completed the course. This may be part

of the course completion requirements.

Tags Displays tags. In the tag block, the size of each tag is related to the amount of items

associated with it. The larger the tag, the more items associated with it.

Upcoming Events Lists all upcoming events scheduled.

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‎6. LearnMate Tools 10

6. LearnMate Tools

Apart from the Home and course pages, Learnmate includes additional places to help you manage your own

agenda and files as well as your student’s learning progress.

Messages

LearnMate provides you with a simple messaging system.

Access Messages via:

The links in the Messages block

The Navigation block

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

You can configure the system and define all types of

settings such as (Navigate to Site administration > Plugins

> Message outputs):

What types of event-based notifications are

received by users

Whether or not message notifications are sent to

a user’s personal email account, instant

messaging service, or SMS

The LearnMate system also provides the option of SMS

messaging between users and mobile phones and the

option of system event-based SMS notifications. Your

system must have an SMS provider in order to enable SMS

capabilities.

Calendar

The calendar keeps track of appointments and events that you

or your administrator has specified.

Access Calendar via:

The Month link in the

Calendar block

The Navigation block

The Calendar displays one month at a time. All scheduled

events are displayed.

Click:

An event to see its details

New event to schedule a new event

You can choose which events to show using:

The drop-down menu.

The Events Key

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My Profile

Your LearnMate profile tells other users a little about you. It

also specifies your preferences for how LearnMate should

work.

To:

See your profile as

others see it. Click View

Profile in the Navigation

block.

Edit your profile, click Edit

profile in the

Administration block.

Edit your profile as required, and click Update Profile once

done.

Note that some fields are voluntary, others are

compulsory.

You can also change your password. Do so regularly to

protect your security.

My Private Files

LearnMate allows you to upload and store your own files. This is

useful for example, for accessing your files from multiple

computers.

Access your private files via the Navigation block.

Your Private Files area allows you to add files, download

files (individually or all at once), delete files, and to create

folders to help you organize your files better.

Right-click a file to view information and options.

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Blogs

Each user can maintain a personal blog, which is viewable and

searchable by all users.

The Blog menu block allows you to add blog entries and

view any entries for a course. You can also use the blog

settings (Site administration > Appearance > Blog) to

change whether a blog is visible, or to allow external blogs.

Badges

Teachers can award badges to students to reward excellence in

learning.

The creation and management of badges can be found in

the course administration block.

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‎7. Student Enrolment Methods 13

7. Student Enrolment Methods

Note: Students must first be added as users to the system by the administrator before being enrolled into a course.

You can enroll students into your course individually, in bulk, or you can provide students with an enrolment key. An

enrolment key is simply a password that students can use to self-enroll into the course.

Ensure that you enter the course before performing the actions below.

A. Enrolling Students with an Enrolment Key

1 In the administration block of a course, navigate to Course

administration > Users > Enrolment methods.

2 In the Add method dropdown menu, select Self enrolment.

3 On the Self enrolment page, complete the Enrolment key

field.

4 Complete the other fields as required, and then click Add

method.

5 Distribute the enrolment key to your students, either via

email or in person.

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B. Enrolling Students Individually (Manual Enrolment)

1 In the administration block of a course, navigate to Course

administration > Users > Enrolment methods.

2 In the Add method dropdown menu, select Manual

enrolments.

3 Complete the fields as necessary, and then click Add method.

The Manual enrolments options line is displayed.

4 In the Manual enrolments options, in the edit area, click the

Enrol users button.

5 On the manual enrolments page, select any users you want to

add to the course, and then click Add. .

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‎8. Working with Outcomes 15

8. Working with Outcomes

The LearnMate system allows you to create and manage outcomes. Outcomes are also known as Standards.

Note: Outcomes are not part of the default installation.

A. Creating New Outcomes

Create an outcome for your course.

1 Enter the desired course.

2 In the Administration block, click Outcomes. If this option

is missing, contact your administrator.

3 Near the bottom of the page, click Edit outcomes.

4 Click Add a new outcome.

5

In the Add a new outcome page, complete the necessary

fields, and then click Save changes. The outcome is

created.

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B. Assigning Outcomes to Activities

After creating an outcome, assign it to an activity or quiz.

1 Click Turn editing on.

2 In the Edit dropdown menu of an activity or quiz, click

Edit settings.

3 Click Outcomes to expand the outcomes area.

4 In the Outcomes area of the page, check the desired

outcomes that you want to add to the activity or quiz.

5 Click Save and return to course or Save and display to

confirm.

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‎9. Standard Reports 17

9. Standard Reports

The standard LearnMate reports aid you in keeping track of your students’ progress in your course.


A. Accessing Reports

Keep track of other student activities using the reports

area in the Administration block.

B. Customizing Reports

You can change the settings of some of the reports. You can perform the following actions:

Change the students that appear in the

report.

Change the time period of the report.

Change the activity or quizzes shown.

Change the actions shown.

Filter the results by educational level.

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‎10. Intelitek Grade Reports 18

10. Intelitek Grade Reports

The Intelitek Grade Reports provide you with graphical and statistical information about the grades of your students.

There are four different Intelitek Grade Reports, each providing you with different information about course

activities and grades.

A. Accessing Intelitek Grade Reports

To access the Intelitek Grade Reports, enter your course

and then click the link in the Intelitek Grade Reports

block.

All available Grade Reports will be displayed.

B. Activities Average Report

The Activities Average report shows the average, minimum, and maximum scores for students in each course

activity or quiz.

Click the title of the report to show or hide

the report.

Click the name of an activity or quiz to

display the average score the students

attained for that activity or quiz.

View the graphic on the right for the

statistics of the activity or quiz.

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C. Single Student Grade

The Single Student Grade Report displays the grades of all course activities and quizzes for each individual student.


the report.

From the Select User dropdown menu,

select the student whose grades you want

to view.

View the column graph to see the grades

for that student. Roll over a column with

your cursor to show the actual grade for

that activity or quiz.

D. Student Activity Matrix

The Student Activity Matrix is a color-coded display of the grades of all individual students for each activity or quiz in

the course.


the report.

Roll over a cell in the matrix to view the

number grade the student attained for

that activity or quiz.

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E. Activity Success Chart

The Activity Success Chart displays the percentage distribution of the grades for each course activity or quiz.


the report.

In the Select Activity dropdown menu,

select the activity or quiz whose

percentage distribution you want to view.

Roll over areas of the distribution pie chart

with your cursor to reveal the number of

students whose grades fell within that

range. The image at right shows that 4

students (40% of all students) scored

between 76% and 85% on the activity.

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‎11. Grading Your Students 21

11. Grading Your Students

Use LearnMate to grade your students quickly and effortlessly. Keep track of your students’ grades with ease.

A. Grading Quizzes and Assignments

To grade a quiz or assignment:


2

Navigate to Administration > Course

administration > Grades. The Grader Report is

displayed.

3 In the Grader Report, click the assignment or

quiz that you want to grade.

If you are grading an assignment, continue to section B. Grading Assignments, immediately below. If you are

grading a quiz, continue to section C. Grading Quizzes, below.

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B. Grading Assignments

1 Click View/grade all submissions.

2 Click the icon in the row of the assignment that you want to

grade.

3 Review the assignment, and then enter the grade in the Grade

out of 100 field. Complete any other fields as required.

4 Click Save changes. The assignment is graded.

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C. Grading Quizzes

1

Most quiz questions are graded automatically.

For those that are not, navigate to

Administration > Quiz administration > Results

> Manual grading.

2 Click grade for the question you want to grade

or click grade all to grade all questions.

Or

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3 Review the question, and then enter the grade

in the Mark out of 1.00 field.

4 Click Save and go to next page. The question is

graded.

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D. Using the Grader Report

Keep track of all your students’ grades with the grader report.


2 In the Administration block, click

Grades.

3

The Grader Report is displayed. The

report shows a list of your students,

and their grades for every

assignment. In addition, the Course

total for each student is displayed.

4

Use the Grader report dropdown

menu to view and edit Grader report

settings and options. Explore these

options and see how they can be of

use to you.

4 Turn editing on to edit individual

grades in the Grade Report.

5 Click Update to confirm the changes.

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12. Content Authoring

LearnMate allows you to author content and create your own courses with your own educational material. On

individual course pages, you can add content and edit it, insert review items such as quizzes, and order and fit your

content to make it look just how you want it to.

The course pages are where all activities and resources for the student are listed. When adding activities and

resources, try to do so in the order in which you want your students to access them. The activities and resources

may be divided by Week or by Topic. Once you add an activity or resource, you can still move that activity or

resource up or down the page and between topics.


A. Adding Activities and Resources

Follow this procedure to add activities or resources to your course.

1 In the Administration block of the Home page or

course page, click Turn editing on.

2

Click Add an activity or resource. Note that you

can add the activity or resource at any point

during the course.

3 Select the activity or resource that you want to

add.

4 Follow the resource/activity - specific instructions on the subsequent page to complete the addition of the

activity or resource.

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The activity or resource is displayed. Where required,

update, hide, or perform other actions. Keep editing

turned on to do so.

B. Using the Edit Commands

This table summarizes all of the edit commands that you can apply when editing is turned on.

In the Edit Settings Menu On the Course Page

Edit the settings

Edit the settings

Move the activity/resource to the right (indent)

Move the activity/resource

and

Hide/show the activity/resource

or

Toggle the grouping options

Duplicate the activity/resource

Manual Completion Indicator

Assign roles to the activity/resource Edit the title

Delete the activity/resource or

Highlight topic or remove highlight (in topic

format only)

or

Hide or show topic

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C. Activity and Resource Types

This table lists and describes common activity and resource types.

Activity Type Description

Assignment

Requires students to complete a project, such as work on an essay, a report, or a model. All

digital files can be submitted via LearnMate.

Certificate

A certificate is generated upon completion of a course when the criteria are met.

Chat

Allows you to have real-time synchronous discussions with your students and fellow teachers

via the web.

Choice

Requires students to answer a single question that you pose.

Database

Requires that students submit specified information in separate, defined fields, into a shared

database. A student’s contribution may be graded, and depending on the preferences that

you set, students may see each other’s submissions. Students may also be given permission

to search the database, and they may also be able to comment on other students’

submissions. Some of the many things you can use the database to do include:

Showcase student projects

Pool resources such as citations, abstracts, and documents

Log class events and topics

Create a suggestion box for student feedback

External Tool

Enables students to interact with educational resources and activities on other websites.

Forum

Acts as an online notice board to which students and teachers can post messages and post

comments to messages posted by others.

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Glossary

This is a list of definitions that students help create.

Lesson

Allows you to deliver content and/or practice activities in interesting and flexible ways. A

lesson can includes a variety of review question types as well.

Questionnaire

Requires that students complete questionnaires to provide user date for surveys.

Quiz

Tests student’s knowledge of the content covered in the previous lesson, or the entire

course.

SCORM package

SCORM packages provide online, interactive lessons that student’s study in their own time.

Survey

Requires that students answer a set of questions that you pose. These are not graded.

Wiki

An online document that students write together collaboratively.

Workshop

A hub for the collection, review, and peer assessment of student work

Resource Type Description

Book

Create a multi-page resource in a book-like format with chapters and subchapters.

File

Provides students with a file that they can download.

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Folder

Provides access to a number of files students can download.

IMS content

package

The IMS content package makes it possible to store chunks of material in a standard format

which can be re-used in different systems without having to convert the material into new

formats. This resource enables such content packages to be uploaded as a zip file and

added to the course.

Label

Add text or multimedia to the course page to improve the appearance of the course and

better organize the course page itself.

Page

Create a web page for your students.

URL

Provides a web link as a course resource.

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13. Managing Course Settings and Content

A. Adjusting Course Settings

Change the course settings in order to make them just right for you.

To edit the course settings, click Edit settings in

the Administration block.

Change important settings such as:

The course start date

The overall appearance

Ability of guests to access the course

The maximum size of a file that can be uploaded

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B. Assembling and Combining Course Content

You can combine course content by importing activities and quizzes from one course to another.

1 In the administration block of the course that you want to

import into, click Import.

2 Select the course from which you want to import content.

Click Continue.

3 Follow the steps of the import process, selecting the

course material that you want to transfer.

4 Click Perform import. The course content is now in the

target course.

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C. Backing Up and Restoring Content

Keep your course content backed up. This process creates a Zip file of your entire course that you can download to

your computer. Later, you can re-upload the zip and restore a course.

Backup course materials using the Course administration >

Backup option in the administration block.

Restore backed-up content with the Restore option.

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D. Adjusting Course Completion Settings

Note: Course completion settings are not part of the default installation.

You can adjust the completion settings of a course. This controls the items that students have to fulfill in order to

successfully complete the course. Your administrator must first enable this feature before you change the course

completion settings.

1 Enter the desired course and, in the Administration block navigate to

Course administration > Edit settings.

2 In the Edit course settings page, click Completion tracking to expand

the completion tracking area.

3 In the Enable completion dropdown menu, select Yes.

4 Click Save changes.

5 In the Administration block, navigate to Course administration >

Course completion.

The Edit course completion settings page is displayed.

6 Edit any course completion settings as desired, and then click Save

changes to confirm.

7 On the course home page, click Turn editing on.

8 Add the Course completion status block. This block helps you and

your students manage items that need to be completed.

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14. Questions and Quizzes

Assessing students through tests and quizzes is a common task for teachers. Prepare questions and quizzes easily

using the LearnMate system.


A. Adding Questions to the Question Bank

Add new questions into the question bank. You can access those questions at a later time. To create a new

question:

1 In the Administration block, navigate to Course

administration > Question bank > Questions.

2 Click Create a new question.

3 Select the desired question type, and then click Next.

4

On the subsequent page, complete the compulsory

fields, filling in the voluntary fields as necessary. Then

click Save changes.

Your question is now in the question bank.

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B. Assembling a Quiz with Questions from the Question Bank

You can pick and choose questions from the question bank and add them to quizzes.

1 Create a quiz using the Add an activity or resource option.

2 Click the quiz link in the course home page.

3 Complete the appropriate fields and click Save and Display.

4

Click Edit quiz. (If you are returning to a quiz where you have

already added questions, click Edit quiz in the Administration

block.)

5 Click show to display the question bank.

6 Select the desired question(s) to add to the quiz. Then click Add

to quiz.

Your question bank question(s) is now in the quiz.

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C. Setting Start and End Dates for Your Quiz

You can choose the timeframe within which students can attempt quizzes, view quiz results, and obtain feedback.

1 In the Course administration submenu of the

Administration block, click Turn editing on.

2

In the Edit menu for the quiz that you want to edit

and/or update, select Edit settings.

The Updating Quiz page is displayed.

3 Click Timing to expand the timing options.

4

Set the timing options as desired.

You must check the Enable box of the Close the quiz

settings in order to allow students to receive post-quiz

feedback.

5 Click Review options to expand the quiz’s feedback

and review settings options.

6

Change the review options as desired.

The review options determine when students receive

feedback and what kind of feedback they receive.

7 Click Save and return to course to confirm the

changes.

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